Bouquet forwarded this order to St. Clair on August 23, also writing: "Colonel Burd is to command on the West of Lawrell Hill, and to march without delay and before the Road is cut to Loyal H-- [Hannan]." On the same date St. Clair wrote Bouquet from Stoney Creek as follows: "I wrote you yesterday ... that three waggons have got to this place, the Road not so good as I shall make it.... I hope to get to Kikoney Pawlins to morrow night, if not shall do it next day. Tell Mr Sinclair to send me my Down Quilt the weather is cold." That evening he wrote again, in reply to Bouquet's letter, from "Kikoney Paulins:" "It is impossible for me to tell you any more than I have done about the Road to L-- H-- [Loyal Hannan]. I required 600 Men to make the Road over the Lai Ri--ge in three days on condition I was to see it done my Self, and perhaps I might reach L-- H the 3^d Day. I expect to get the Road cleared as far as the clear fields a Mile from the foot of L--R on this Side, by the time the A--y [army] comes up, and work afterwards with as many men as the Other Corps will give me." From Edmonds Swamp St. Clair wrote next (no date): "I got the Waggons safe as far as this post yesterday the road is so far good, and if it had not rain'd so hard I was in hopes to report the Road good this Night to Kikoney Pawlings.... If you think the Road from Rays town to the Shanoe Cabins will be wet in the autumn, it wou'd be well to open the Road over the two Risings, and it wou'd be shorter for our Returned Waggons. I shall send out a Reconoitering party 25 Miles northward that we may know the Paths that lead to sidling Hill."